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oh yeah i remember bitching with that. I got a blackberry just to try it out (hand me down) and said F this when it asked for the stupid data plan. iMessage came shortly after, and of course, worked over wifi.

granted while i dislike the government, what i got from this was that even with a warrant, the feds couldn't intercept and decrypt iMessage messages, and that normally there is NO encryption of voice or text.

Apple does act as its own CA (cert auth) for iMessage. So, in theory they could perform a man-in-the-middle -- but I am doubting they can easily do that easily (as a normal flick of a switch due to a legal order)

The article seems to imply that there's some type of backdoor. Whether or not that's true I don't know, but as a matter of principle, I trust free/open-source solutions that have been independently reviewed over things like FileVault or BitLocker.

The article does, however, note that there are numerous points where data can be intercepted, and all of the data hits Apple at at least one point. Skype has government backdoors in it, I find it difficult to believe that Apple doesn't have some way of intercepting and decrypting traffic. Also given how recent iMessages is and how the DEA, FBI, et al are begging Congress to force backdoors, I would not be surprised if it was laid out so that one could be added easily later on if it does not already exist.